Trump Suspends Diversity Visa Program After Shooting Suspect

President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of the U.S. diversity visa green card lottery program on Thursday, linking the decision to a Portuguese national who entered the country through the program and is suspected in deadly shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the pause on the social platform X, stating that under Trump's direction, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services would immediately halt the program. "This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country," Noem said, referring to the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.

The attacks occurred earlier in the week in Providence, Rhode Island, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Authorities identified Neves Valente, 48, as the gunman responsible for killing two Brown University students and an MIT professor, while wounding nine others. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to officials. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley confirmed that Neves Valente obtained legal permanent residency in 2017 after winning a spot in the diversity visa lottery that year.